The Michael Berry Show.

The Michael Berry Show.

If you compliment your friend or your friend's wife as to them looking great they've lost weight.

What are you doing? Are you working out? Are you intermittent fasting? You look fantastic.

Somebody who's been carrying an extra 20 or 60 pounds for a very long time all of a sudden has a little spring in their step.

And it's not just women. Men carry themselves differently. When they've dropped down 3, 4, 5 sizes in their jeans they start tucking their shirt in. Oh my goodness.

Instead of tennis shoes with their jeans they're wearing loafers. They're wearing dress shoes. They're all of a sudden getting their hair styled.

It's a change in your entire presentation. You can see the swagger in people. They've been married for 25 years and now all of a sudden they're acting like they used to when they wooed their lover.

Well, ozimpy is often the answer. And I can't pronounce the word I'll get the pronunciation. It's semacglitudes. I'm not sure how you pronounce it.

But our expert we went searching for an expert and some of you will know we have talked about this subject before.

We have had other doctors on to talk about this but it is such a common phenomenon cultural trend and a medical issue and you know I'm fascinated by those.

That we are having an expert on the matter with us today. Her name is Dr. Archana Sadhu. She is a board certified endocrinologist specializing in diabetes and she is the director of the system diabetes program at Houston Methodist.

She is specifically with us to talk about that diabetes drug. It's actually being used as a diet drug causing some problems for diabetics who really need the drug.

Dr. Sadhu, first of all, why are we hearing ozimpy all the time? What is so special about this drug?

Well, thank you for having me here today, Michael. And yes, it's all over the headlines and it seems to be something new each time.

But it actually, it's been in our toolbox for many years for type 2 diabetes which is what it was originally studied and approved for because it really lowered patients blood sugars dramatically.

But in those studies it was also noted that they had a significant weight loss. So then subsequently the drug, semi-glutide, was studied for chest weight loss so people without the diagnosis of diabetes.

And again proved itself to be a great drug to help people lose weight. And then it got FDA approval for that indication.

The drug is the same, which is semi-glutide, but for diabetes it's the brand name is ozimpyc and then for weight loss alone it's called vagovii.

So I think where everyone's just kind of used to the first name ozimpyc, but that's why we hear the term ozimpyc all the time. But it could be either ozimpyc or vagovii, which is the same drug.

I want to talk about the differences between that and why it's marketed separately because that's important for pharmaceutical regs.

But first explain to me like I'm in about seventh grade, what exactly does ozimpyc or wagovii do?

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